Well done to everyone who turned up at Burbage Moor today. It was very windy on the tops and the 1:2000 Boulder field area seems to have caught out a larger number of runners. Prizes will be presented at the Walesby day event on the 18th December.

The minutes of this year's A.G.M. have been published and are available to read .

22 Nov 11Black and Green

The Black and Green Word Machine is the club's magazine, Peter Hubberstey will be editing the next issue, so if you would like to send him an article, then please contact him here. The deadline for the next issue is the 7th December 2011.

21 Nov 11Juniors final

The Yvette Baker Final will be run by HALO on Sunday the 4th December.

Could juniors please let me know who is going and also if they need to go on the Minibus.

It will be good to get as many juniors as possible to attend, Ben Beresford and myself will need to know who is going so we can enter you on the appropriate course that gives us the best chance of doing well.

Please see the attached flyer for the event which is being held at SYO's Burbage Moor event on Sunday 27th November.

13 Nov 11NOC Juniors into the final.

NOC juniors (894 points) just pipped LEI (890 points) at today’s event at Byron’s Walk. NOC now progress through to the Yvette Baker final, which is being held on HALO’s Mausoleum Woods area, somewhere between Scunthorpe and Grimsby. The date for your diaries is Sunday the 4th of December.

A big thanks to Robert Parkinson for co-ordinating the team and Robert would also like to thank all of those who participated and especially those that ran on a different course to their usual choice.

10 Nov 11Juniors on Sunday

All juniors, it is the Yvette Baker Trophy on Sunday at Byron`s Walk.

We need all our juniors to turn up and run.

The courses for the juniors to run are Yellow to Green with M/W 18 being the upper age range.

I unfortunately will not be there as I will be in Venice for the street race, however, Robert Parkinson will be organising the juniors for NOC.

If you are unsure what course to run please make sure that you talk with Robert.

Please do not run above the Green course if you are a junior.

We need a good spread of results across all courses so you may be asked to run a course lower than what you would normally run, to hopefully help the team score the necessary points to progress to the finals.

Hope you all have good runs.

Many Thanks

Mick Lord

4 Nov 11The OMM

Last weekend saw the Original Mountain Marathon take place in central Scotland. The weather wasn't that great but a few NOC members came out on top. Class A winners were James Taylor and Peter Hodkinson and Class C winners were Richard Robinson and Andrew Llewellyn. Full results can be found at http://www.theomm.com/, pictures of the winners are to be found here and here.

2 Nov 11New NOC Committee

A new committee was elected at the A.G.M. in October; their first committee meeting will soon be taking place. Missed the A.G.M.? Then find out who is who .

24 Oct 11NOC club champs

Please see the attached flyer for the upcoming NOC club champs being held at SYO's Burbage Moor event on Sunday 27th November. This new flyer has the courses that each age group should run to be eligible for the club champs and is aligned with the flyer on the SYO website.

19 Oct 11Compass Sport Maps

Andrew Powell has the maps from the Compass Sport Cup Final at Longshaw last Sunday (for those who had early starts). He will be bringing them to Bramcote Hills this Sunday or can post them to club members if they get in contact with him through e-mail.

18 Oct 11Training Day

The East Midlands Orienteering Association will be holding a training day on the 26th November 2011.

Courses will be available for Planners, Organisers, Mappers and Controllers as well as an Event Safety workshop Course.

If you are a junior (over 14) then do you fancy the planner’s course? The next NOC event could be run on the courses you have chosen?

NOC finished 7th in this year’s competition. Results can be found here.

Should NOC qualify for next year’s event then it is being staged by Roxburgh Reivers on 30th September at Teviothead between Carlisle and Hawick with an urban event in Carlisle on the previous day.

15 Oct 11Compass Sport Cup Final

Good luck to all of those running in the final tomorrow. Sixty three NOC members have entered the competition to be hosted by DVO at the Longshaw Estate, near Sheffield, Derbyshire.

13 Oct 11British Schools Score Championships

Last weekend saw the British Schools Score event take place at the Beaulieu Estate, Hampshire.

Top individual performances from NOC members were Chris Cutajar (representing Nottingham High School ) finishing 3rd in the year 7 boys category and Will Parkinson (Tuxford School) 3rd in the year 10/11 boys category.

Eleanor Cooley (Ranby House School) just missed out on a podium finish with a 4th in the year 7 girls category.

In the team events...

Ranby House School managed 2nd in Middle, Prep Girls category and 4th in the Middle, Prep Boys.

Nottingham High School matched those finishing positions with a 2nd in Upper Secondary Boys and 4th in Lower Secondary Boys.

Next year’s event will be much closer to home, just down the M42 at Kingsbury Water Park.

George made it to LEI's Outwoods event today and so has already met a few NOC members.

4 Oct 11Committee Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the September committee meeting are now online. .

28 Sep 11Brierley and buffet afterwards

Don’t forget the NOC winter league event this Saturday (1st October) at Brierley Country Park.

The NOC Annual General Meeting follows this fixture, all NOC members are most welcome to attend this social event, a buffet and light refreshments will be available at around 1:30, it is being held at the All Saints Centre (Main Hall), Common Road, Huthwaite, Notts. NG17 2JT. Directions.

Winter league and Summer league prizes will also be presented and Steve Green (the outgoing chair) will try to keep the formal part of the a.g.m. short and interesting (the timings for last year’s was twenty two minutes and for 2009 a staggering nine minutes)

Junior co-ordinator Michael Lord has booked a couple of evenings climbing at Nottingham Climbing Centre on Monday 26th Sept and Monday 3rd of October between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

We have booked 7 places (a good bit of x training), we will have an instructor, with the aim to skill people up and to begin to enable them to use the centre and develop their climbing skills on their own.

I know its short notice, but booking it and getting times etc. have been a bit of a nightmare.

Each session will cost £5 if you make cheques payable to NOC.

People will be responsible for making their own transport arrangements.

Unfortunately I am away this weekend but if people e-mail ( e-mail address ) to let me know who would like to attend I will try and sort it out, sorry not many places, not sure of the take up and it becomes very expensive with 2 instructors.

I have some consent forms but people may need to fill one in if I haven’t one for them.

There is a lower age limit of 12 years of age.

Below is the address and website.

The Old Pool, Rawson St, New Basford, Nottingham, NG7 7FR

www.nottingham-climbing.co.uk We boast over 800 square metres of climbing facilities. Including; bouldering, superb top roping and excellent lead climbing. Inside the centre every group is catered for, from first time beginners to professionals requiring a world class training facility.

Our fully qualified instructors, with their in depth climbing knowledge, can provide specialist tuition on using the wall.

The Centre has a spectator area and a café overlooking the climbing which is open all day offering light refreshments to climbers, their friends and their family.

21 Sep 11Bramcote on the move

From tomorrow (Thursday 22nd September) Bramcote orienteering group is moving to the University campus for the winter, meeting at the University Sports Centre foyer, the site is perfect for the evening sessions because of the security lighting around campus. Fees for the evening session at the University will be £2/£1. Map location and further information can be found .

20 Sep 11Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme

Congratulations go to Peter Hodkinson on being selected to be a recipient of British Orienteering's 2011/12 TASS awards. The full announcement can be found here.

15 Sep 11GB selections

Congratulations to Richard Robinson, Helen Palmer and Peter Hodkinson on being selected for the Great Britain squad for the final rounds of the World Cup.

We look forward to hearing about their trips to the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

Thanks to Michael Lord for this review of last weekend’s Peter Palmers relay and a big thank you to Michael for organising the teams.

This years Peter Palmers took place in Stafford at Beacon Barracks over the weekend of 10th 11th of September, the weekend coincided with the London city race and people getting ready to make their first trips to university so these obviously affect numbers.

We did however still manage one full team and one ad hoc team made up of NOC, DVO and one of our “neighbouring” clubs RR. I would thank all the juniors who turned out to make this a very enjoyable event and certainly positive things for us to build on.

We were using the dreaded Emit punching system and unfortunately the NOC team mis-punched (definitely went to control but in the heat of competition), had this not happened we would have been a very credible 7th.

The ad-hoc team had good runs ending up 9th overall, Eleanor did fantastically well having not been orienteering long, doesn’t know anyone else and has never ran a relay, she also ran the leg on her own, so well done.

As well as good team runs and a very good team spirit and some good individual runs, we are doing very well at the juniors turning out for events such as PP, the Harvester, YB and others.

Sleeping was a bit strange but ok we were all crammed into one room 16 of us, I’m sure the room was only meant for 4 people.

Thanks to all the young people who turned out to represent the club.

Thanks also to the adults who gave a hand: Robert Parkinson John Cooley Julie Lord

It's the Compass Sport Cup Final on Sunday 16th October (Longshaw woods, near Sheffield) which NOC have qualified for.

The CSC is the annual inter-club competition. Anyone can represent NOC in the final, so if you can turn out, the more the better.

Please email me your name, BOF number, SI card number and age class. Each age class has to run a designated course ( see attachment) (I know the details are for the qualifier, but the age/course combos are the same.)

Entries need to be in by 25th September and I will let you know costs as soon as the organisers let me know them.

Helen just qualified in 15th place in her heat on Saturday in a tough heat compared with the times in the other 2 heats (the top 15 in each heat qualify for the final).

This meant that she had the first start time in the Long distance final, which was held in the afternoon heat of Wednesday 17th August on the Bauges plateau, Savoy.

Despite some small mistakes at the first and 18th controls she came into the long run in first to be cheered by the British fans present. She did not hold the lead for long but ended up a very creditable 23rd place in a very long and physically/technically tough race.

This years’ annual general meeting will be staged after the event at Brierley on Saturday 1st October 2011. As well as the A.G.M. there will be presentations for the Summer and Winter leagues. Further details will be published in the next NOC newsletter due at the end of August.

16 Aug 11Broxtowe Footsteps Festival

The Broxtowe Footsteps festival is a great way to get active in a relaxed and friendly environment, with all the family. It runs from Saturday 3rd September – Sunday 11th September. Full details of all the different events can be found in the leaflet here.

NOC will be taking part on THURSDAY 8th SEPTEMBER

ORIENTEERING. 6.30 - 8pm. Bramcote Hills Park.

All ages welcome. Enjoy learning to read an orienteering map, testing yourself with the fun mini-navigation challenges set up around the park. Choose from walking or running and the coaches will guide you through the navigation. A great way to exercise with friends or on your own that gets you away from the TV and doesn’t require a lycra outfit! All maps and equipment provided, just come dressed for a walk in the park. For more information contact: Catherine Hughes 07940 575758, or email hubclub@noc-uk.org. No charge.

12 Aug 11Black and Green

The Black and Green Word Machine is the club's magazine, Peter Hubberstey will be editing the next issue, so if you would like to send him an article, then please contact him here. The deadline for the next issue is the 20th August

9 Aug 11Latest Summer league

Tables have now been updated to include the Wollaton results. .

29 Jul 11NOC Development plan

British Orienteering has recently published their regional plans. Further details are available here. The NOC catchment area falls into the Eastern regional plan. A review of this document has taken place resulting in NOC making a few small changes to their existing plan. This new NOC plan can now be reviewed here.

26 Jul 11Summer League Tables

With just Wollaton Park and Wellow Park left in this year’s NOC Summer League it is all getting very tight at the top. The latest tables are listed below.

NOC’s Robin Hood Trophy event at Blidworth on the 22nd January 2012 has been chosen as part of the selection races for Interland 2012.

The 2012 Interland Cup is to be held in southern Belgium (Ardennes – Habay la Neuve) on 22 April 2012. Teams from England, Belgium, the Netherlands, NW Germany and NE France will take part.

Further details for the 20/21 classes can be found here and for the M/W40 to M/W65 they can be found here. Final details for the juniors in age classes 14 - 18 will be finalised soon but these are the dates for their diaries

Calling all the young people of NOC, the Peter Palmer relays have been announced, it is the weekend of the 10th/11th September. Please add this date to your diaries, initial details are here. It is based at Stafford so not too far a journey. Further details to follow.

15 Jul 11Committee Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the July committee meeting are now online. .

14 Jul 11Bulwell Hall Park fixture

NOC’s Bulwell fixture will be part of the London 2012 Open Weekend, celebrating one year to go to the Games, it will feature art, dance, film, sport events (that’s us) and more. With more than 1,000 events taking place, there's something for everyone!

The Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon (SLMM) took place last weekend. Many orienteering clubs had people taking part and NOC had their fair share of entrants.

NOC’ own team captain Andrew Powell showed everyone the way by winning the Harter Fell class with his partner for the weekend Tim Boxford. They won both days and ended up with a combined total time of 8 hours 17 mins.

Meanwhile on the Scafell course, one of NOC’s top performers Andrew Llewellyn and ex-NOC member Sarah O’Neil sprinted round in just over 12 hours to be the first “mixed” team home.

Well done to everyone who completed the courses on a very hot weekend in the Lakes.

The next NOC committee meeting is on Wednesday the 6th July. The current committee can be contacted via e-mail .

Previous meeting minutes can also be found .

29 Jun 11Whole Sport Plan for Orienteering

Mike Hamilton (Chief Executive of British Orienteering) has been in touch and would like as many orienteers as possible to participate in a questionnaire.

Mike explains…

There is less than two years to run of our current Whole Sport Plan. With this in mind, we need to start thinking about the plan for the next period and are seeking views at an early stage. It’s worth noting that this plan for orienteering is nothing to do with sports councils and is everything to do with our understanding the needs and priorities of orienteers and orienteering clubs.

The following link is to a questionnaire, which is aimed at getting an initial sampling of members’ views towards the work done as part of the current Whole Sport Plan. There will be a more in-depth consultation period based on the ideas expressed at a later stage.

Andrew Powell has a pair of lycra tights and a number of JK and BOC relay maps in his possession, they are the leftovers from the relays. If people want Andrew to get their maps to them or if they own the tights (Kalenji), then please get in touch ASAP. He will be throwing them away after the Harvester relays.

The Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Michael Wildgust visited the Forest Recreation Ground last Saturday for the National Families Sports Day.

He is pictured trying his hand at the “naughty numbers” game.

Mr Wildgust showed great promise with his newly acquired “O” skills, in the past he won an all England schools cross country championship and played football and cricket and was captain of both at school, later he played football for Arnold Town.

This free event will provide a range of family focused games and activities for all ages to enjoy including: · inflatables · a climbing wall · circus skills · traditional sports day games such as egg and spoon, sack races and much more.

Good luck to everyone (especially NOC members) who have entered this year, have a great run.

The British Orienteering Championships weekend takes place on Saturday 14th May (the individual race) and Sunday 15th May 2011 (the relay competition). Both competitions will be held within 10 k.m. north of Sheffield.

The events are being organised by YHOA clubs, with South Yorkshire Orienteers (SYO) being responsible for the individual competition, and East Pennine Orienteering Club (EPOC) organising the relays.

NOC have set aside two Thursday nights (19th/26th) at the Bramcote hub club in May- JUST for school kids and parents to try out the beginners orienteering club.

The coaching team are making a big effort to publicise the club this summer and need the help of NOC members.

Two flyers are available (powerpoint and pdf versions) for you to: 1. Forward on to friends and family or 2. Print off and put up a poster or 3. Send to your work's intranet or 4. Use in some way to encourage people to come along on one of these nights to try out some of the fun games we're planning

Experienced orienteers are welcome too!

If you'd like a paper poster or flyers please see me at Harlow Woods on Sunday

Thank you

Catherine Hughes (07940 57 57 58)

29 Apr 11Selections for Palmer and Hodkinson

Helen Palmer has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Nordic Orienteering Tour (NORT), being held in Scandinavia from 16th - 21st June. Full details here.

While Peter Hodkinson has been selected to represent British Orienteering at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, being held in Poland from July 2nd – 9th July. Full details here.

27 Apr 11JK 2011 Review

Northern Ireland hosted this year’s JK event. The weather was superb and the hospitality 1st class.

Friday was the sprints at Stranmillis University College in Belfast. NOC had a brilliant start to the weekend with two winners in Peter and Hilary.

Saturday moved down to the sand dunes at Tyrella South and Sunday was moorland at Slieve Croob. The sand dunes certainly caught many people out, Hilary continued in great style coming in 2nd overall, Paul also “podiumed” with a 3rd on M40S

Congratulations to Bracken Lane School, from Retford, who on Saturday 26th March won the Bassetlaw Primary Schools Orienteering Championships. The event was held in the grounds of Ranby House School and was organised by the Bassetlaw hub club, with the help of the Nottinghamshire Schools Orienteering Association.

Many thanks to Ranby House School for providing refreshments to everyone after the event and to the Headmaster for presenting the medals and team trophy.

The event proved to be very successful and a request has been made that we have another Bassetlaw Primary Schools event next term.

25 Mar 11Updated University Event

Updated details are now available here . Don’t forget you can enter online here.

24 Mar 11Black and Green

The Black and Green Word Machine is the club's magazine, Peter Hubberstey will be editing the next issue, so if you would like to send him an article, then please contact him here. The deadline for the next issue is the 14th April.

19 Mar 11Welcome to the club

We have had some new members join recently. Welcome to NOC and we hope you have a long association with the club.

NOC’s next fixture is around the university on Saturday the 2nd April. You can pre-enter for this using Fabian. Further details are on the fixtures section.

Nick Evans (the organiser) is asking for two volunteers to marshal a campus road crossing just after the start. If you can help out then please contact Nick on 01636 813058.

16 Mar 11Results for the Winter League

The tables have been updated. Well done to everyone who competed and especially to those who came out on top, Kim Buxton, John Woodall, Dorothy Woodall and Ethan Shepherd.

All the tables can be found .

8 Mar 11British Orienteering Relay Championships

The British Orienteering Relay Championships are being held on Sunday 15th May at Tankersley woods just north of Sheffield. Andrew Powell has distributed a flyer about the event via e-mail to all our members. If you have never run a relay then this is a great opportunity to get involved as there are a super selection of courses. Didn’t get the e-mail, then let Mark know your updated e-mail address.

28 Feb 11JK relays

If you are attending the JK this year and wish to run in the relays then please let Andrew Powell know ASAP. Team Captain’s e-mail

21 Feb 11Midland Championships

This year’s Midland championships required a trip to East Anglia. Sheringham Park (NOR) hosted the event and NOC ended up with 5 winners. Well done to all those who braved the journey.

NOC win the Robin Hood Trophy. In a very closely fought competition at Sherwood Pines today, NOC held off the challenges of DVO, OD and LEI to win the trophy for the first time in many years. A delighted Keith Roberts received the trophy on behalf of NOC. “It’s great to see the trophy back home”

For those who didn’t pick up their map at the Beacon Hill event, Emily Powell will be bringing the unclaimed maps to the Robin Hood Trophy event at Sherwood Pines on Sunday for reclaiming. They will be available at the finish tent/download.

10 Feb 11Yvette Baker Trophy Results

NOC came in 9th in what appears to be a very closely fought competition.

1st OD 2nd LOC 3rd SARUM

Well done to all the NOC juniors for competing in a most enjoyable day in the West Midlands.

Just to let you know that we are going to be having a cake stall at DVO's event at Shining Cliff on Saturday 12th February so any donations on the day would be greatly appreciated. We will not be able to do hot drinks at this event as there is going to be a burger van who will be selling those so we need to sell lots of cakes! Thank you.

Hope to see you there.

Rachel Beresford (NOC)

7 Feb 11British Night Championships 2011

NOC managed two runners up in this years championships which were held at Bentley Woods (OD)

Michael Napier came in second on the M55L class and Catherine Hughes was also second on the W40L class.

The Yvette Baker Trophy is the premier Junior Inter-Club competition for English and Welsh clubs. It is named after Britain's first World Orienteering Champion, who won Gold in the Short Distance event in Scotland in 1999.

4 Feb 11Nottingham Post publicity

Thanks to Gail Marie Lockwood and Remi Gauvain for their journalistic efforts in managing to have this article printed before last month’s Commpass Sport Cup qualifier. If you have been to an orienteering event and have a story to tell, please send Gail (see facebook) or Remi (e-mail) a message.

3 Feb 112011 World Ski-Orienteering Championships

Congratulations to Helen Palmer on being selected for the British team. WSOC 2011 runs from 22nd to 27th March at Tänndalen in Sweden.

Unfortunately Peter Cholerton has stepped down from his role as treasurer. The committee and club would like to thank Peter for all his hard work over the last two and a half years. Peter has produced a very detailed spreadsheet of NOC’s accounts and has left on a high, having successfully had last year’s accounts audited. Also thanks to Stephen Wright for the auditing. The summary of the accounts are attached below.

The treasurer is a key position within the club so the appointment of a new treasurer is a top priority. Any names or thoughts can be passed onto Steve Green.

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28 Jan 11British Orienteering Relays 1985

Sherwood Pines is the venue for this fascinating video unearthed by ex-NOC member John Dalton. As you may well know that this year’s Robin Hood Trophy event will be based there on the 13th February. The video follows the exploits of Tim Tett of SYO as the team try to retain the trophy. There are many familiar faces from the various clubs who attended.

David Olivant goes on to explain. “The event was something of a milestone for NOC and helped develop the club’s reputation for excellent organisation. Sherwood Pines was then known as Clipstone and all the facilities (that is the car park) were at the south end of the current area. It was almost all very mature pine wood planted after the First World War and there was almost no bramble so it was possible to run straight across all the blocks. I think that the Organiser was the late and sadly missed Peter Bourne and the Planner was Peter Hubberstey who features in the video giving an excellent impression of a tree. Other NOC members in there are Mick Lucking and Keith Picksley. The mapper was Alan Gould who had spent 3 weeks camping out to survey the map and the current version is still very much based on Alan’s work, well all the good bits anyway”

David

We have managed to put the video on YouTube. It has been split into two parts as it is 23 minutes long and the longest allowed is 15 mins.

Also in converting the format, something went slightly wrong so the sound is now out by about 2 seconds but I don't think it will spoil it too much.

Could you please confirm your attendance at the Yvette Baker at Hawkbatch on the 6th of FEB, if you could ring or e-mail me to confirm that you will be coming along.

I just need your S.I. card number.

We will be running 2 minibuses this time so that it gives us a bit more flexibility in picking people up. One of the minibuses will be leaving from Retford and winding its way down the other will be leaving from the South of the county (Micks House).

It is all looking good for it taking place this time so we need as many young people as we can to progress to the final.

If you can contact me on my e-mail or home 0115 9174451 or on 07824 626288.

I need people’s confirmation A.S.A.P.

Many Thanks

Mick Lord

21 Jan 11Welcome to the club

We have had some new members join recently. Welcome to NOC and we hope you have a long association with the club.

The Friends of Bestwood Country Park group understands that Notts County Council are planning to cut out the Park Ranger service completely across the County, replacing it with a non-resident warden service with fewer members and costing between £8k - £10k each less. This would be a devastating loss to Bestwood Country Park, and would waste all the good work that has been done by its management in recent years to make the Park a safe place for users and for wildlife.

Our park covers 690 acres, with a long urban-fringe boundary and multiple access points - although there is a team of regular volunteers who help the rangers, there is no way that the Friends group and the volunteers alone could keep the park safe for its residents or police it for such events as your own.

The Friends group is writing to County Councillors asking to meet them to argue that the cuts being planned for the Conservation and Country Parks Dept of NCC is nearer 50% than the 25% they have said they want. We are asking for a reduced but ranger-led team to remain on site at Bestwood, which we think would still meet the 25% cut. We are also collecting signatures for a petition.

We hope we have your group’s support in this, so I’m attaching a copy of the petition, and also a summary of our arguments. Maybe you might get us some more signatures, if you agree with what we say? We are also encouraging people to write to their local County Councillor to protest at the complete cut of ranger presence on the Park, and ask for a smaller but ranger-led presence there. If anyone isn’t sure who their Councillor is its easy to check it from the Notts County Council website.

We will be collecting the petitions back in between 17-19 January. We will also be at the Winding House car park in Bestwood Village this Sunday, 9th January, 2-4 pm weather permitting, to collect signatures, and again at the Bestwood Lodge car park on Sunday 16th, 2-4 pm.